Don’t be too excited. That’s been done on here at Lemmy too. I think it was called santabot, and it would ban/unban you from some guys community purely based on your upvote/downvote ratio, without any other input. It was controversial, and some called him out on it, but others thought he was doing awesome with it.
He’s no longer around now, but I was surprised the admins let him keep using that bot the entire time he was here.
Well, there is a difference between having a situation, where some comunities udo use automation tools to ban/unban and where the whole platform uses them.
Sure, but this was a little more than an automod, because it was based on what you did outside of the community, and banned you based on how many downvotes you got from other people.
So let’s say you got 1 upvote for your comment yesterday. Then 2 downvotes today. That unrelated comm, would ban you even if you had never been there,. had never posted in the comm, or even heard of the comm.
celticviking@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Don’t be too excited. That’s been done on here at Lemmy too. I think it was called santabot, and it would ban/unban you from some guys community purely based on your upvote/downvote ratio, without any other input. It was controversial, and some called him out on it, but others thought he was doing awesome with it.
He’s no longer around now, but I was surprised the admins let him keep using that bot the entire time he was here.
Bazell@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Well, there is a difference between having a situation, where some comunities udo use automation tools to ban/unban and where the whole platform uses them.
celticviking@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Sure, but this was a little more than an automod, because it was based on what you did outside of the community, and banned you based on how many downvotes you got from other people.
So let’s say you got 1 upvote for your comment yesterday. Then 2 downvotes today. That unrelated comm, would ban you even if you had never been there,. had never posted in the comm, or even heard of the comm.
Bazell@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Well, than this automation tool was a piece of crap software poorly designed to mimic Reddit’s karma system.